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A New Approach to Decomposition of a Bivariate Rank Dependent Index Using Recentered Influence Function Regression
Heckley, Gawain A.; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Kjellsson, Gustav - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014
Decomposition of a bivariate rank dependent index, such as the concentration index, is commonly used to explain … socioeconomic inequalities in health. We introduce a new decomposition technique based on the recentered influence function that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227851
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Extending Decomposition Analysis to Account for Socioeconomic Background: Income-Related Smoking Inequality among Swedish Women
Kjellsson, Gustav - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014
This article suggests an extension of the standard decomposition of the concentration index that allows for an … for one vital health-related behavior, smoking. The decomposition uses an underlying model that considers both individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885283
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Extending Decomposition Analysis to Account for Socioeconomic Background: Income-Related Smoking Inequality among Swedish Women
Kjellsson, Gustav - 2014
This article suggests an extension of the standard decomposition of the concentration index that allows for an … for one vital health-related behavior, smoking. The decomposition uses an underlying model that considers both individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208697
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An experimental test of the concentration index
Bleichrodt, Han; Rohde, Kirsten I.M.; Van Ourti, Tom - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 1, pp. 86-98
The concentration index is widely used to measure income-related inequality in health. No insight exists, however, whether the concentration index connects with people's preferences about distributions of income and health and whether a reduction in the concentration index reflects an increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010582599
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The Relationship Between Low Birthweight and Socioeconomic Status in Ireland
Madden, D. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
-growth-retardation. It also carries out a decomposition of this index for the different sources of low birthweight and finds that income … conditions appear to be more relevant for IUGR. The application of the standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition also indicates that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010631744
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The relationship between low birthweight and socioeconomic status in Ireland
Madden, David - 2012
-growth-retardation. It also carries out a decomposition of this index for the different sources of low birthweight and finds that income … conditions appear to be more relevant for IUGR. The application of the standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition also indicates that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293663
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Mental Health and Its Socioeconomic Inequality in Sweden: The Role of Demographic Changes over Time
Linder, Anna; Spika, Devon; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Fritzell, Sara - 2018
decomposition results show that distributional changes in the population explain the increase in suicide inequality and partly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208826
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The relationship between low birthweight and socioeconomic status in Ireland
Madden, David - 2012
-growth-retardation. It also carries out a decomposition of this index for the different sources of low birthweight and finds that income … conditions appear to be more relevant for IUGR. The application of the standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition also indicates that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733088
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A modified Kakwani measure for health inequality
Fjugushige, Mototsugu; Ishikawa, Noriko; Maekawa, Satoko - In: Health Economics Review 2 (2012) 10, pp. 1-7
decomposition method using expenditure components and provide an empirical example with Japanese data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317153
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A modified Kakwani measure for health inequality
Fjugushige, Mototsugu; Ishikawa, Noriko; Maekawa, Satoko - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 10, pp. 1-7
decomposition method using expenditure components and provide an empirical example with Japanese data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621720